At this moment, the one-armed Martial Ultimate Zombie King was trampled beneath the giant serpent's foot.
Raging flames quickly consumed the Martial Ultimate Zombie King's body. In the blink of an eye, its armor turned to ashes, followed by its crimson skin, and then its muscle.
Yet the Martial Ultimate Zombie King had not lost the ability to move. Clenching its lone fist, it struck continuously at the serpent's claw, but the claw was composed entirely of flame, immune to physical attacks.
Even corpse qi failed to inflict the slightest harm on the serpent's claw. Every strike the Martial Ultimate Zombie King threw was an exercise in futility, lending the scene an air of tragic sorrow.
"It's over, it's over. Even a real man can't beat it. Maybe we should run?" Recovering from his shock, Zhang Shou felt a pang of sorrow seeing this, as though witnessing a fallen hero's twilight years with his own eyes. But then his tone shifted, wanting nothing more than to grease his heels and slip away.
Yu Xian nodded and said, "Yeah, I'll send you back first. See you later!"
"Wait—" Zhang Shou's eyes widened. He had just opened his mouth to ask why Yu Xian wasn't coming back with him, but before the words could leave his lips, he was teleported directly back to Earth.
The reason Yu Xian stayed behind was actually because he did not believe the Martial Ultimate Zombie King would lose!
According to the Appraisal results, the serpent's lifespan had already dropped to zero. The crux was that the serpent wasn't a long-dead zombie, meaning it was destined to die today. And here, the one most likely to kill it was the Martial Ultimate Zombie King.
He was deeply curious: could the Martial Ultimate Zombie King have some hidden trump card?
In truth, he couldn't see any chance of a turnaround right now. Though every punch from the Martial Ultimate Zombie King packed tremendous power, anyone with eyes could tell its attacks were entirely useless.
Right then, the serpent slashed its other arm toward the Martial Ultimate Zombie King's head, sharp talons severing its neck in an instant.
Next, it hacked off all of the zombie king's limbs.
Having done all this, it looked up toward Yu Xian, yet turned a blind eye to him.
From beginning to end, its target had never been a vampire like Yu Xian, but a living human like Zhang Shou.
To the serpent, Yu Xian was hardly different from a zombie.
Is it disappointed?
Yu Xian caught the emotion in the serpent's eyes. Just as he was about to teleport away, his movements paused.
At that moment, the giant serpent turned to leave, clearly having lost all interest in everything here. But before it could extinguish the flames across its body, the sky suddenly plunged into darkness.
As the dark clouds parted, the entire land lay exposed before the Abyss.
Without anyone knowing when it had arrived, an unfathomably colossal monster stood on an unimaginably distant shore, gazing down upon this land.
Yu Xian could not see its full form. The instant he subconsciously looked up, his physical eyes bled simply from seeing it. Through the blur, he caught sight of an exaggerated pair of great demonic horns, its body tattooed all over with strange golden symbols. The moment his gaze met one of those symbols, his vision went black, and his eyeballs burst on the spot.
The monster reached its hand toward the earth, pinching the departing serpent between two fingers like an earthworm.
The serpent struggled madly, its flames condensing into a massive sword that slashed at the arm, yet it failed to leave a single scratch upon it. Instead, provoked by the struggle, the two fingers pinching its body squeezed even tighter. The serpent coughed up a mouthful of blood and instantly wilted.
By the time Yu Xian's eyes regenerated, the entire world had fallen back into silence.
Only the countless web-like fissures across the ground, the dismembered Martial Ultimate Zombie King, and the further shattered sky bore silent witness to what had transpired.
"Asonis... Those symbols are part of its name. Whoever can recite its full name in its entirety can summon it and guide it into the reciter's world." Yu Xian glanced upward. The demon had vanished, yet even as lingering fear gripped him, a wave of unease washed over him.
When he saw that symbol, a fragment of information had flooded his mind, telling him it meant 'Asonis'—yet that was merely one segment of its name.
Not knowing the entity's full name, he could only temporarily refer to the demon as "Asonis."
Furthermore, he had spontaneously learned a spell without any teacher: by merely chanting "Asonis," he could intimidate and command all demons below Dragon-rank.
Yet he had no intention of using this magic.
After all, this magic had come about far too strangely. He felt that the more he used it, the deeper his entanglement with Asonis would become, perhaps even leading to another encounter with the being someday in the future.
"To think the giant serpent would die by a demon's hand. And here I thought the Martial Ultimate Zombie King would pull off a counter-kill."
Landing on the ground, Yu Xian walked slowly toward the Martial Ultimate Zombie King's severed arm, feeling complicated inside.
The severed arm still firmly gripped the blood-red greatsword. However, Yu Xian simply coated the greatsword in the red energy of the Dragon Shield's core, and in the next instant, the weapon shifted from the zombie king's hand into his own.
Thud!
Yet the moment he gripped the hilt, his expression changed drastically, and he quickly let go.
The greatsword fell to the ground, sending a heavy tremor through the surrounding earth. The blade weighed well over a hundred tons—his strength was simply insufficient.
Fortunately, he had let go quickly enough, or he would have been dragged down with it and slammed against the earth.
Appraisal!
Yu Xian looked at the greatsword and performed an Appraisal right away:
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[Heaven-Weeping Blood Sword]
[Rank: God]
[Ability: After drinking blood, comprehensively empowers the wielder. The more blood it drinks, the greater the enhancement. When fed with the wielder's own blood, the effects double, and the duration doubles.]
[Summary: The last divine sword forged in this world with the purpose of protection. Yet it failed to protect anything, leaving behind only tears of blood.]
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The sword's ability was simple and brutal, yet astonishingly powerful.
Unfortunately, the Martial Ultimate Zombie King's blood had run dry long ago, preventing the weapon from unleashing its peak power.
Yu Xian bent down to grasp the hilt, then cut his finger and dripped his blood onto the blade. The Heaven-Weeping Blood Sword immediately gave off a faint red glow, rapidly absorbing the blood.
A surge of immense power then flowed through the hilt into Yu Xian's body, and he lifted the sword with ease.
In this moment, an illusion arose within him that he could slay the giant serpent with a single strike. Raising the sword, he gave a light slash toward the ground, and sword qi instantly tore a fissure into the earth.
"It amplified my strength by at least twenty-fold on top of what I had before. Incredible!"
Gripping the Heaven-Weeping Blood Sword, Yu Xian could not help looking astounded. A divine artifact truly lived up to its name—its power was absurd.
Moreover, this twenty-fold boost was not limited to strength alone; it was an all-around enhancement. His speed, defense, and reflexes had all been augmented.
He felt as if the entire world had grown small, while he had become a giant capable of shattering this fragile world with a simple gesture.
Of course, the Super Brain constantly reminded him that all of this was merely an illusion born of rapidly swelling power.
In reality, even enhanced twenty times over, he still stood no chance against the giant serpent.
To say nothing of the serpent, he was still no match even for the Martial Ultimate Zombie King.
Still, this feeling of ballooning power was truly intoxicating!
Suppressing the urge to howl aloud, Yu Xian simply swung the sword wildly across the ground, carving sword marks everywhere he moved.
Suddenly, he jerked to a stop. His gaze fell upon a pool of blood on the ground. Instead of soaking into the soil, it had congealed like jewels, giving off a faint luminescence.
This was the blood coughed up by the giant serpent when Asonis had crushed it!
Chapter 122